December 8, 2011

Newt and the Governing Class

By Steve McCann
I just returned from the belly of the beast, Washington, D.C.  There is not a more parochial or insular city in the country.  While there, I had a conversation with two members of what can be described only as the Republican establishment, one in the print media and the other a K Street lobbyist.  In short order, the conversation turned to Newt Gingrich and his surge to the top of the ladder. There is no one more reviled in Washington than Newt.  If anyone believes he is part of the establishment, he or she is mistaken.  In fact, it would not be a terribly great stretch to say some in the Republican wing of the governing class would prefer to see Obama re-elected than Newt in the Oval Office.  However, the vast majority of this class are now in a panic as the preordained choice, Mitt Romney, is truly threatened by the rabble in flyover country constantly looking for anyone but Romney.  These people have settled, so it...(Read Full Article)